Ken
| Freeform radio for the chronically impatient. Avant-garde pop, poppy avant-garde, teutonic thump thump, loud guitars and guttural screaming. Playlists and photos posted in real time on the web so you can play along or comment at home or work.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:20am
dei xhrist:
Hello, I am caucasian, and I just can't understand this "ruff mix" music. It stirs things in me that I don't think my father would approve of getting stirring. My moms, however, is totally up with it.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:26am
Kroger Friday Afternoon:
We studied some soups for a bit...crossed paths a couple times...you almost ran into me with your cart at the end of the aisle...I checked you out several times but alas chickened out in the end...your hair was pulled up, then let down...very attractive..I was wearing a blue shirt/Tigers ball cap..

Hopefully we'll cross paths again..

Wed. 5/14/08 9:28am
Random conversation at 7-11:
I was just about to make a slurpee when you warned me about one of the flavors. we had a typical little conversation, but I should have asked you for your number... you had shorter brown hair and rollerblades. get back to me if you happen to ever read this!

Wed. 5/14/08 9:30am
Mall food court (Last week tuesday):
I was eating subway and you were reading a book and talking on the phone. We made eye contact. I thought about saying something but i was to nervous because you were so beautiful. I hope you read this and email me back.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:31am
Cecile:
Can you play some Shanel?
Or Shanel and Ian Oliver's "Bukovina" if you have it? Great stuff...

Wed. 5/14/08 9:32am
Beautiful Blonde at Best Buy:
I was buying a digital camera today and while checking out there was a stunning blond on line ahead of me. You were wearing green pants and a while button down shirt, short blond hair. I am tall, black tshirt, jeans. Thought we exchanged a glance. Just wanted to see if you are out there.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:34am
Mrs. Adams, I presume?:
Mort,

I'm detecting some mutual attraction. Could it be my rusty radar?

I've got some situational baggage, but I find you very interesting. I don't want you to think I just want some recreational physical contact, though I certainly wouldn't pass it up. Because of my present family/financial situation I can't give you the commitment you have a right to.

If you are interested in what I can give at this point in my life, you know where I am.

Lunch sometime? Not at Denny's! Preferably a table for two.

To think this all started with a mistakenly placed blow to the head!

Wed. 5/14/08 9:34am
Seen at dog park:
I saw you at the dog park the other day. Your pit bull was trying to consume a chihuahua whole, like a python. My Westie was choking on some bad jerk pork he'd found in the trash. You were wearing a look of total existential desperation and a North Face jacket. I was wearing an air of total panic, and some Marc Jacobs jelly shoes. Hope you are well, and that the legal fees didn't set you back too much.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:36am
sqrl:
live harmonia please

Wed. 5/14/08 9:37am
I can't believe I puked in front of you:
Coming home late Saturday night after some pretty serious partying, I found myself sitting on the subway across from you, the cutest boy I've seen in a long time. So what do I do? I throw up. Not a lot, just a little bit. But you definitely noticed, and you laughed. It wasn't a mean laugh though, it's more like you were laughing with me, and you gave me a look that said "it's alright." In hindsight this sounds like the perfect icebreaker, but I didn't talk to you for fear of "barf breath." Besides, I wasn't feeling like a brilliant conversationalist right then. If by any chance you read this, I'd love a second chance to meet when I'm not quite so nauseous.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:41am
brooklyn courier reporter guy at cupcake cookoff.:
you were covering the most important story of the day by far, perhaps even of our generation. i liked your glasses, you are very cute. i would like to make you a cupcake. my cupcakes had pie inside.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:45am
Saw You at E-Mart:
I was at E-Mart buying a bucket of geoduck clams and some frozen shumai when I saw your face and reality cracked open and I fell into the swirling chaos of the abyss, past a ruined necropolis where glistening many-throated acolytes ululated wildly in the shadowy recesses of a moonlit grove, as if mocking the fate of man and his pusillanimous endeavors. You opened your mouth and it was full of stars. I tried to scream, but could not utter a sound. Slowly, the chorus of bat-winged faceless creatures descended.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:45am
puss n deez:
i am a bad boy

Wed. 5/14/08 9:46am
dei x:
If Lovecraft shops at E-Mart, then I will too.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:47am
who put the dead bird in my mailbox?:
a) how did you get into my mailbox in the first place, it is locked
b) did you kill the bird
c) it died horribly, that much was clear
d) you're psycho
e) do I know you
f) if I do know you I don't want to know you
g) if I don't know you, what did I do to inspire you to put a dead bird in my mailbox
h) I don't know how to disinfect a mailbox from a dead bird, I'm worried about diseases and have used five different kinds of cleaner but still feel like the bird's still in there still and like my bills and my catalogues and my coupons have dead bird on them
i) it was a hummingbird, I looked it up - they don't even live in New York - this is so f*ing psycho, I can't believe this
j) are you the mailman?
k) I'm always nice to the mailman
l) the super didn't care when I told him what happened
m) the neighbors didn't care either
n) do you have some kind of problem with birds
o) don't put anything else in my mailbox
p) unless it's an apology
q) no, I take that back, I don't even want an apology
r) what am I supposed to do with this bird - it's in bubblewrap in a bag in a shoebox in the freezer right now - am I supposed to bury it - where? how? in a construction site where they've jackhammered through the concrete - where is a person supposed to bury things in this city?
s) I could drop it in the Gowanus canal, but that seems undignified
t) I could drop it in the ocean, but the ocean is so big and it is such a small bird
u) I could drop it in the toilet but it would probably get stuck
v) I hear this whirring around my ears every time I go to the mailbox and I'm pretty sure it's ghost bird, and I'm all "it wasn't me that killed you, bird!" but still the whirring doesn't go away until I get to the stairwell
w) am I supposed to eat it - maybe you were trying to feed me - don't you know I'm a vegetarian
x) if this was Ricky, I'm gonna beat your ass, mama told you stop bothering the zoo
y) if this was Gina, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, how many times I gotta say I'm sorry
z) I could drop it off the roof, maybe it will reincarnate while falling and I can start reading my mail again

Wed. 5/14/08 9:48am
?:
Actually, some of the squid I saw at E-Mart looked like Cthulhu.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:50am
Ken:
Thank you Aesova, that will be quite enough.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:56am
Cecile:
I have a little plush Cthulhu at home. It and the stuffed buzzard greet our guests.

Wed. 5/14/08 9:57am
jonathan:
we live near one of h.p.'s homes in providence.
cthulhus all over the place.

Wed. 5/14/08 10:48am
Sue Simmons:
Apology accepted Aesova and I apologize for saying a word that is offensive to some viewers, uh listeners. It was a mistake on my part. Ken play more Hawkwind and not just Silver Machine. Do it. Dont make me mad.

Wed. 5/14/08 10:49am
giselle:
I love this jesus thang!

Wed. 5/14/08 10:50am
Listener James from Westwood:
Wasn't there some urban-vernacular "translation" of the Bible back in the Nineties? I recall Limbaugh getting his Oxy-addled ass in an uproar over some such thing.

Wed. 5/14/08 10:53am
Bill O'Reilly:
I had that clip taken off YouTube and I will have WFMU taken off the air if you continue to play it ......you liberal FMUers you

Wed. 5/14/08 11:40am
dei x:
Referring to Portishead. I can't think of any instance of Dan Castellaneta sounding like a table full of oscillators.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144657/
http://www.silverapples.com/

Events
1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1904 - The first Olympic Games held in the United States began, in St. Louis.
1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.
1948 - The independent state of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion, in Tel Aviv.
1955 - Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland.
1998 - After nine years on NBC, the hit TV series "Seinfeld" aired its final episode.
1999 - President Bill Clinton apologizes to Chinese President Jiang Zemin for the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, six days earlier.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification by Jos&eacute; Cardinal Saraiva Martins.

Wed. 5/14/08 11:48am
Parq:
Ah yes, Sinatra died during the last "Seinfeld". Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Wed. 5/14/08 11:53am
Listener Dave:
Wow, we lost one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century on the same day that the most overrated program in the history of television mercifully went off the air. That's whacha call irony, innit?